Biden: Ryan now has Romnesia on the auto bailout

If the Obama campaign is to be believed, "Romnesia" is spreading and Paul Ryan has caught it — forgetting that he voted for the 2008 auto rescue.

"Remember the president talked about Romnesia?" Vice President Joe Biden said at a campaign event in Florida on Thursday. "It's contagious. Congressman Ryan's caught it."

The Obama campaign and the Romney campaign have been sparring over the auto bailout and a new Romney ad. The Romney campaign released a spot that said Obama had sold off Chrysler to the Italians who were preparing to outsource jobs to China.

While the Italian car company Fiat did purchase a controlling share of the automaker in 2009, the company clarified this week that they are not moving any American jobs to China. Biden blasted that ad as an "outrageous lie" at an earlier Florida event.

"American taxpayers are on track to lose $25 billion as a result of President Obama’s handling of the auto bailout, and GM and Chrysler are expanding their production overseas," Ryan said in a Wednesday statement. "These are facts that voters deserve to know as they listen to the claims President Obama and his campaign are making. President Obama has chosen not to run on the facts of his record, but he can’t run from them,"

But Biden noted that Ryan joined a bipartisan effort in 2008 to save the auto industry with a federal bailout.

"Congressman Ryan voted with us," Biden said. "He voted in the Congress with us before he saw Romney"